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by Alifatisk·3y ago·view on hn ↗
I enjoy Dart a lot currently, but I can only imagine it being used on the client-side for building an ui, nothing else. It even advertises itself like so.

To me (with my limited knowledge on Dart), it feels like Dart is lacking a lot if it wants to work as a systems language.

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The main sass implementation is in dart https://github.com/sass/dart-sass, which I think is dumb because it's a fair amount slower than the old libsass written in C.

The reason they spouted was due to "Low developer resources" due to the difficulty of C, so they swapped to a language pretty much only used by Googlers. Google now has control of sass, which then gives them greater influence (even greater than just having browser majority) over CSS Spec choices (see CSS Nesting spec).

I would argue that if someone was interested in working on sass there's a far lower entry barrier to learning enough dart to do so than getting good enough at C to work with the old libsass.